Features

Natively publish to multiple channels, formats, and screens at no extra cost, without any plug-ins. Work more efficiently with popular prebuilt tools and templates designed for easier authoring. Manage content using native integration with content management systems and Dropbox. Collaborate with PDF-based reviews, even on mobile devices, and review and author simultaneously.

Now deliver your content to multiple channels, formats, and screens, from within FrameMaker 12, without having to purchase any other product. Publish to popular output formats like EPUB 3, KF8, MOBI, WebHelp, CHM, and HTML5 with a single click. Define settings once and share them organization-wide. Simultaneously batch-process multiple outputs.

Integration with content management systems

Smoothly integrate with leading content management systems, like EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint, via built-in connectors, and others using third-party plug-ins. Get a set of APIs to connect your enterprise authoring environment with virtually any content management system. Improve searchability of content with custom metadata.

Work more productively by conducting authoring and reviewing in parallel. Edit the source content without waiting for all review comments to come in. Review comments are imported correctly in the modified document as long as the commented content has not changed in the source document.

Leverage the powerful PDF-based review workflow even on mobile devices using the mobile Adobe Reader app. Allow your subject matter experts to review content anytime, anywhere on smartphones and tablets. They will be able to make comments in the PDF and these can then be seamlessly imported into the FrameMaker source file.

Customize the user interface to match the way you work. Configure it with icons of your choice—large or regular sized, colored or greyscale. Use floating toolbars and control bars, dock your most frequently used dialog boxes for quick access, and create workspaces customized to your workflow.

Change the way you insert elements of various catalogs such as element, paragraph, and character catalogs. Bring up the new dialog box with a keyboard shortcut. See content even for large catalogs with 10 elements displayed at a time. Search for an element directly, or view a dynamic list of elements based on the filter criteria or context.

Work anytime, anywhere, on any machine, and with collaborators across networks. Choose whether to upload dependent files or not. Share documentation easily with subject matter experts and other reviewers, and keep documents automatically updated with review comments.

Easily add QR codes to FrameMaker 12 documents and bridge the gap between the print and online worlds. Edit embedded QR codes and preview them in real time. Use them on popular iOS or Android™ QR Reader apps. Generate QR codes in different sizes.

Effortlessly use conditional tags for single-sourcing content with an improved, user-friendly Conditional Text Pod. Easily apply or remove multiple conditions. Utilize visual checkmarks to apply conditions or see which conditions have been applied.

Get back your previous session with just one click. Automatically restore files that were open in the last session, pods and panels in use as well as their location, and the selected authoring view.

Video support

Develop richer, more engaging technical content by adding a variety of high-impact multimedia features. Enjoy robust support for video content in MP4, FLV, and SWF formats. Customize FLV and SWF videos by selecting posters and creating links with text, to play, pause, or jump.

Linked 3D graphics

Create a richer user experience when working with 3D graphics by linking them with relevant parts of a document. Enable users to switch between parts of 3D graphics and the associated descriptions by inserting bidirectional links. Play 3D animations by clicking on the text.

Hotspots

Create linked documents with better readability and usability by inserting hotspots over images, vector illustrations, and objects or parts of them. Convert shapes to hotspots to guide users to other relevant parts of the document.

Filtering by attribute

Enable better management and reuse of content by taking advantage of support for multivalued attributes and the ability to import expressions from one document to another.

Automation through scripting

Easily automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks through advanced scripting support with Adobe ExtendScript. Run scripts for simple tasks from within FrameMaker or through the ExtendScript Toolkit to eliminate manual efforts and help increase productivity.

Filter content within your document using conditional tag expressions created with an intuitive user interface. Easily build complex expressions with nested parentheses and Boolean operators. The expression is automatically validated as you type. . Name your conditional expressions and save them for future use.

Be more productive when working with multiple files. With the new "Currently Open Files" pod, you can easily see all open files across all views along with the complete file path.. Easily identify and navigate between saved, unsaved, and active files. Save or close multiple files at one go.

Leverage regular expressions to carry out complex searches, or ‘find and replace’ on content in WYSIWYG and Author views. Use any of the three regular expression search engines—Perl, Grep, Egrep, and easily search body text, footnotes, markers, variables, and more. Regular expression search uses the Boost library, with Perl as the default search engine.

Multiviews: Native XML Code, WYSIWYG and Author View

Easily work with XML content in Native XML Code View, using customized toolbars, inline attribute editor, error tracking, search and more. Work with styles, themes, and formats in the WYSIWYG View and see content as your users will. Use Author View to focus on writing without bothering about formatting.